Author:Charles Knight

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Charles Knight (1791–1873)

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English publisher and writer; published for "The Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge"

Charles Knight

Works

• William Shakspere, a Biography (1843) (external scan)

• The Standard Edition of the Pictorial Shakspere, 7 vols., as editor (1846)
• The Old Printer and the Modern Press (1854) (external scan)
• "An Old Church Library" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859)
• "Amwell and Its Quaker Poet" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859)
• "The Illuminations at Heidelberg" in Once a Week, Series 1, 4 (1861)
• Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century: With a Prelude of Early Reminiscences (1864-1865) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• Shadow of the Old Booksellers (1865)
• The Popular History of England, 7 vols. (1867-1868)
  • Volume 3
• William Caxton, the first English printer: a biography (1877) (external scan)

Works about Knight

• "Knight, Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Knight, Charles (1791-1873)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Knight, Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)